Perfectly rational.

Unleash bots and sock puppets, generate mindless hype. Add a bit of circular accounting.

Watch the investments roll in and the share price soar up.

Profit...

Fraud, but a presidential pardon has already been paid for in advance.

You know whats crazy? We’re in bizarre times were this can actually be true. Things we joked about before which was obviously too nonsensical to be true is no longer the case in my world.

The tricky part about “layer 2 sarcasm” is that it has a tendency to inspire exactly the wrong people in to making it true

Here in Australia, every parent I have spoken to is happy about the ban.

The media is predictably unhappy since they lose eyeballs, advertising revenue and money.

Previous approaches like expecting parents to educate children failed miserably.

Most parents lacked at least one or more of motivation, time or knowledge.

> The media is predictably unhappy

this is an article by reuters, they are not affected by the ban.

I miss the days of intelligent discussions on comp.arch.

John Mashey would pipe in with old_systems_guy@yahoo.com (John Mashey) "I repeat the old proverb:"Money can buy bandwidth, but latency is forever.""

https://yarchive.net/comp/latency.html

Terge Mathiesen with brilliant asides likeIntelligent discussions now happen on closed forums. My people have moved to mailing lists like arch-general@lists.archlinux.org, or behind authentication firewalls in professional societies.

The public internet is now populated by the sort of people I devotedly avoid in real life...

These days most of the high quality material I read is on Anna's Archive.

Give it a year and Microsoft will have abandoned it for some other shiny buzzword rich agentic slop ...

Truly rich people do not have TVs.

Or if they do own a ultra high end TV like a C Seed N1 they hide them away inconspicuously.

https://www.cseed.com/en/indoor-tv/c-seed-n1-tv.html

It is like eating cheap and nasty junk. If you are rich you avoid it or eat it discreetly...Or your acquaintances laugh at you.

If you want slightly more affordable (they have prices listed - starting at £6k for a 48" TV) there's also Bang & Olufsen:

https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/gb/televisions

That's certainly a feature screen. Not sure it's inconspicuous!

I think I'd likely prefer one of those slightly more discrete OLEDs that rolls up into its box when not in use, like the LG Signature R...

Looks like everyone is hoping that Chinese AI wins over AI from Trump's land.

AI slop site with AI slop research...

Blog populated with incoherent PR material generated by Yet Another AI.

Sigh...

Can Dang implement a slop rating on submitted pages? Not a block but at least a % likelihood of AI slop content and that could also be tied with a BS rating as well.

Could use AI for both which seems hilariously appropriate.

Or perhaps a slop flag on submissions that gets added once enough readers have flagged it as such. I'd love that feature.

Never piss off the minions of the Supreme Leader.

I remember using pure metal tapes...